Wind-horn.



WIND HORN.

APPUCATLON FILED SEPLSO. 196.

Patented Apr. 30, 1918.

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HENRY A. NEUWILLER, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

WIND-HORN.

Application led September 30, 1916.

To all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY A. NEU- WILLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Orleans, in the county of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Wind-Horns, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in wind horns and has particular application to a horn wherein the air currents are generated by means of a motor driven fan.

Iny carrying out the present invention it is my purpose to provide an air horn which will embrace the desired features of simplicity, eficiency and durability and which may be manufactured and marketed at a small cost.

lt is also my purpose to provide a wind horn which may be readily installed in a motor vehicle or the like so as to serve as a warning signal.

With the above recited objects in view and others of a similar nature the invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts set forth in and falling within the scope of the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawing The figure is a longitudinal sectional view through a wind horn constructed in accordance with the present invention.

Referring now to the drawing in detail l designates a funnel-shaped casing having the restricted end thereof formed with a tortuous neck 2 and the outer end of the neck 2 is connected with a bell 3 arranged opposite to the casing l and having the outer endcovered by a screen 4 to prevent entrance of dirt and other foreign matter to Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 3U, Mille.

Serial No. 123,128.

the horn. The larger end of the casing l is formed with an outwardly extending flange 5 and connected to the flange 5 is the pee riphery of a disk l5 having an upstruck or raised center 14, around which latter is fitted a cylindrical drum 6 carrying an electric motor 7. Connected to the armature shaft of the motor 7 is a fan 8 arranged within the outer end of the casing l, while formed in the disk around the drum are air holes 9 covered by a screen l0. Arranged in the small end of the casing 1 at the juncture of the latter with the neck 2 are reeds 11 differently toned.

In practice, when the motor 7 is energized the fan 8 is revolved and draws air through the holes 9 and forces such air past the reeds 1l through the neck 2 and the bell 3 thereby vibrating the reeds ll to sound the horn.

What is claimed is The herein described wind horn comprising a funnel-shaped casing having an annular flange at its larger end, a neck connected with its smaller end and leading to a bell mouth, reeds located within said smaller end, a disk closing the larger end of the casing and secured to its fiange, the disk having air-inlet holes around its edge and an upstruck center, a drum whose inner end is tted around said upstruck center, a motor within the drum having its shaft carried through said disk at the center of the same, and a fan on the projecting end of said shaft and whose blades extend past said inlet holes whereby the rotation of the fan draws air into said holes and forces it through the reeds, for the purpose setforth.

ln testimony whereof I affix my signature.

HENRY A. NEUVVILLER.

Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

